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• The Suez Canal: Why It Was Built and How It Works
  The Suez Canal is a sea-level waterway through Egypt that links the Mediterranean and Red Seas, opened in 1869 so ships could avoid the long voyage around Africa.
• What Was the Columbian Exchange? Crops, Animals and Disease
  The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of crops, animals, people and diseases between the Americas and the Old World after 1492, reshaping diets and populations.
• The Silk Road
  The overland trade network linking China, Central Asia, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 15th century CE.